Improvement in medical compounds or bitters



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

ABRAM M. LORYEA, OF EAST PORTLAND, OREGON.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,846, dated July 11, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAM M. LORYEA, of

Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and Improved Medical Compound; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a new compound for the treatment of rheumatism, in which the essential ingredient is the unk-weed, which I supposeto be Thaspium cordatmn, of Oregomwhich I propose to denominate The Unk-weed Remedy, which consists of the following ingredients mixed in about the proportions stated: Tincture of unk-weed, two and one-half ounces, avoirdupois; stomach-hitters, one ounce the compound tincture of Peruvian bark, of the United States Dispensatory, one-half ounce the hypophospliate of potassa, one scruple; the compound powder of ipecacuanha, one-half dram; essence of wintergreen, .twenty-fiw e drops; distilled Water, four ounces. To be shaken Well. Dose,atable-spoonful three or four times a day.

The tincture of unk-weed, botauically known as Thaspz'mn cordatum, employed in the abow e compound, is made by powderin g one-half pound of the dried unk-weed roots, stems, leaves, &c., and percolating it in a displacer with dilute aloohol until two pints of tincture have been obtained; and the following is the formula for the stomach-hitters used in the aforesaid compound: Oolumba rad, contus., gentian rad., oontus, aurant. oort., cardamomii se1n., angelica se1n., each one ounce; uva passae, ten ounces; cocous cacti,

proof spirit, four pints macerate fourteen days.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The unk-weed remedy, consisting of the above compound, substantially as specified.

2, The combination of the unk-wced, hypophosphate of potassa, and the compound tincture of cinohona, substantially as specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 7th day of December, 1870.

A. M. LORYEA.

Witnesses:

-SIMEON E. J OSEPHS,

G. B. BELLINGER. 

